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About the Role

Astek Middle East is seeking a DevOps Engineer to join its fully remote engineering team. This role focuses on building and maintaining cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes environments, CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and modern DevOps practices. The successful candidate will collaborate with software engineers, architects, and security teams to deliver reliable, scalable, and secure cloud-native solutions. This position is suitable for engineers who focus on automation, continuous improvement, and solving complex production challenges.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain scalable cloud infrastructure.
• Manage and administer Kubernetes clusters in production environments.
• Build, maintain, and optimize CI/CD pipelines using modern DevOps tools.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible).
• Deploy and manage containerized applications using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Implement GitOps deployment strategies using ArgoCD or similar tools.
• Monitor infrastructure health using Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, or equivalent monitoring solutions.
• Ensure infrastructure security, availability, backup, disaster recovery, and compliance.
• Troubleshoot production incidents and optimize system performance.
• Collaborate with software engineering teams to improve deployment processes and release automation.
• Support cloud migrations and cloud infrastructure optimization.
• Implement best practices for networking, security, scalability, and automation.
• Document infrastructure architecture, deployment procedures, and operational runbooks.

Required Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience as a DevOps Engineer, Cloud Engineer, or Site Reliability Engineer.
• Strong Linux system administration experience.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes in production.
• Excellent knowledge of Docker and containerization.
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong Infrastructure as Code experience using Terraform.
• Experience with Git, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Jenkins.
• Experience managing cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP, Oracle Cloud, or DigitalOcean).
• Experience with monitoring and logging tools.
• Good understanding of networking fundamentals.
• Experience implementing infrastructure security best practices.
• Strong scripting skills (Bash, Python, or similar).
• Experience working within Agile teams.
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent written and spoken English.

Preferred Qualifications

• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)
• ArgoCD (GitOps)
• HashiCorp Nomad
• Consul
• Elasticsearch / Logstash / Kibana (ELK)
• Prometheus
• Kafka
• VMware
• Active Directory integration
• Cloud migration experience
• Microservices architecture
• Security hardening
• Experience supporting banking, government, or enterprise platforms.

Work Environment

This is a full-time position with Astek Middle East, based in Saudi Arabia. The role operates within a fully remote engineering team, emphasizing collaborative work in a distributed setting.

Application Information

Astek Middle East is seeking qualified candidates for this role. Salary information will be discussed during the interview process.